Red Yellow Milkweed. It has nice big leaves and likes partial or dappled shade. Their warning colors red and black strike home that fact.
North of saint denis you ll find milkweed and some more evergreen huckleberry. The humans to plant them and the bugs to eat them. Sometimes called orange milkweed this perennial has large flat topped clusters of yellow orange or bright orange flowers and blooms may to september.
In the fall as the seed pods burst open it s a horticulture culinary war between the milkweed growers and the milkweed bugs.
Common milkweed pests aphids aphids which are often found on milkweed plants are yellow soft oval and huddle together on new shoots stems buds and leaves. It has nice big leaves and likes partial or dappled shade. Golden yellow flower clusters cover the plant adding a lovely dimension to your summer garden. 1 2 ft 30 60 cm swamp milkweed asclepias incarnata.